What’s shocking is not that Islamist currents have proven anti-democratic and anti-human rights, but how quickly they dropped the façade of the victim, writes Bahieddin Hassan “The security apparatus is not …
UAE: Unfair Mass Trial of 94 Dissidents Investigate Allegations of Torture, Grant Public Access to Sessions
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities have compounded serious pre-trial violations of fair trial rights by arbitrarily denying family members, international observers, and the international media access to the mass trial of …
Joint Appeal by Egyptian Human Rights Organizations to the UN OHCHR
Joint Appeal by 22 Organizations Ms. Navanethem Pillay >United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Palais Wilson 52 rue des …
United Arab Emirates:
Flagrant disregard of fair trial guarantees shown at UAE94 trial
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights), the Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) …
Spring at the United Nations:
Positive Action Breathes New Life into the UN Human Rights Council, but Challenges Remain
(22 March, 2013 – Geneva) The 22nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Council) comes to an end on 22 March. While the Council has been heavily …
Human rights groups condemn the targeting and assault of individuals based on their identity in the Muqattam events
The undersigned human rights organizations are deeply concerned by reports and testimonies indicating that groups of demonstrators on Friday, 22 March, targeted individuals for the purpose of physically harming them. …
Adoption of an unprecedented resolution at the UN to end the financial strangulation of human rights NGOs
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) World Organization against Torture (OMCT) Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS – Egypt) Human Rights Center VIASNA (Belarus) ADC Memorial (Russia) Cairo – Saint-Petersburg – Minsk …
CIHRS calls upon the Libyan authorities to make the passage of legislation protecting human rights
In an Oral Intervention to the UN Human Rights Council: Yesterday, March 20, 2013, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) presented an oral intervention on the state of …
UN Human Rights Council must consolidate consensus on 16-18
ARTICLE 19 and Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) are concerned that a new draft resolution on religious tolerance, tabled by the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) at the …
CIHRS calls on Israel to cease all settlement activities and resume cooperation with UN rights bodies; and urges Palestine to ratify major human rights treaties
On March 18th 2013, The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) delivered an oral intervention on human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories, before the United Nations Human …